More English Fairy Tales, Macleod. Campbell. Sinclair. Curtin., sentence 74

The "Youngest-best" formula which occurs in Cinderella, and on which Mr. Lang laid much stress in his treatment of the subject in his "Perrault" as a survival of the old tenure of "junior right," does not throw much light on the subject.

Who acts: Youngest best formula, formula · What happens: occur, lay, not throw, treat, survive · To what, where: Cinderella, much stress, treatment, much light, subject, old tenure

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Macleod. Campbell. Sinclair. Curtin.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Youngest best formula, formula), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 formula	det
2	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 Youngest	punct
3	Youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	7 formula	amod
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 best	punct
5	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	7 formula	amod
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 best	punct
7	formula	formula	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 laid	nsubj
8	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 occurs	nsubj
9	occurs	occur	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 formula	acl:relcl
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 Cinderella	case
11	Cinderella	Cinderella	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 occurs	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 laid	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 laid	cc
14	on	on	ADP	_	15 which	case
15	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 laid	obl
16	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 Lang	nmod:desc
17	Lang	Lang	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 laid	nsubj
18	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	47 throw	advcl
19	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 stress	amod
20	stress	stress	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 laid	obj
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 treatment	case
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 treatment	nmod:poss
23	treatment	treatment	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 laid	obl
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 subject	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 subject	det
26	subject	subject	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 treatment	nmod
27	in	in	ADP	_	30 Perrault	case
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 Perrault	nmod:poss
29	"	"	PUNCT	_	30 Perrault	punct
30	Perrault	Perrault	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 laid	obl
31	"	"	PUNCT	_	30 Perrault	punct
32	as	as	ADP	_	34 survival	case
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 survival	det
34	survival	survival	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 laid	obl
35	of	of	ADP	_	38 tenure	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 tenure	det
37	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 tenure	amod
38	tenure	tenure	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 survival	nmod
39	of	of	ADP	_	42 right	case
40	"	"	PUNCT	_	42 right	punct
41	junior	junior	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 right	amod
42	right	right	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 tenure	nmod
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 laid	punct
44	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 laid	punct
45	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	47 throw	aux
46	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	47 throw	advmod
47	throw	throw	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
48	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 light	amod
49	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 throw	obj
50	on	on	ADP	_	52 subject	case
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 subject	det
52	subject	subject	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 throw	obl
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	47 throw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	occur	present	the Youngest best formula		Cinderella		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in cinderella=Location
2	lay	past	the Youngest best formula	much stress	formula's treatment of the subject	in formula's Perrault; as a survival of the old tenure of junior right	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent stress=Result as survival=Attribute
3	not throw	present · do-support		much light	the subject		vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent light=Theme on subject=Destination
4	treat		formula	the subject			nom treatment «act transitive»: poss=agent of=patient
5	survive			the old tenure of junior right			nom survival «state transitive»: of=patient

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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